World Quotes by Cormac McCarthy

Each the others world entire.

— Cormac McCarthy

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

— Cormac McCarthy

Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

— Cormac McCarthy

“Themselves among others, everything in its place. Justified in the world.”

— Cormac McCarthy

Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.

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The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.

— Cormac McCarthy

The hardest lesson in the world: Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.

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What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would…

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On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the…

— Cormac McCarthy

It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

— Cormac McCarthy

Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle…

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Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only…

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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be…

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“If you had to say something definitive about the world in a single sentence what would that sentence be? It would be…

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He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he…

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I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you…

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Men have in their minds a picture of how the world will be. How they will be in that world. The world…

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I've always been interested in the Southwest. There isn't a place in the world you can go where they don't know about…

— Cormac McCarthy

The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon…

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“When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child…

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“He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein…

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In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The dream bore the look of sacrifice but he thought differently.…

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And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea…

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The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him…

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He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some…

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If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in…

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The night is quiet. Like a camp before battle. The city beset by a thing unknown and will it come from forest…

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Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest…

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“There is but one world and everything that is imaginable is necessary to it. For this world also which seems to us…

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Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the…

— Cormac McCarthy

He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to…

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Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do.…

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A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own…

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By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray…

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He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

— Cormac McCarthy

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

— Cormac McCarthy

Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.

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At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

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Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be,…

— Cormac McCarthy